Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-02

assembly representatives.
 Eighth-Men have been admit ted as delegates to the general as. rembIy who clearly had dnO cOnsti. tutional right to seats, while Oth- CTS have been refused upon tech. nicalities contrary to precedent and established custom. In all cases tise test was for o. against the ring.
 { Ninth-{A) Many thousands of dollars of the Oriler's funds have been illegally exprnded--fIequent- ly against the earnest protests of i honest and law.ab;ding members. i (B). Extravagant hotel bills, contracted by the families of gen, eral officers have been paid out of the orders funds, as have family laundry and bar bills.
 (C). Funds have been donated and loaned to officers and their friends for their own personal use.
 (D). General officers, Organi- gers and lecturers have not only been paid liberal salaries and al lowed heavy expenses from the general treasury, but have charg- ed additional sums to the locals and districts.
 Tenth-HOnest men devoted to the cause of labor have been made the scapegoats of the blundering high officials and driven Ill dis grace from the movement.
 Eleventh-E Efforts made by as- semblies to better their condition have been strangled by the ring, it is charity to say, for no meaner reason than in response to the clamor of the common enemy of : labor. -zs=t. Twelfth-The boycott has been used to injnre the labor press, union establishments and the products of Knights of Labor and union labor for the sole purpose of "downing" workingmen and 
 women who could not be used by the cOnspiratOrs. ..
 Thirteenth-PersOns who were not members of the order have been provided, for personal reas- ons, with lucrative positions in the general office.
 Fourteenth--The constitution has been altered in an illegal man. ner; it has been tempered with, aud measures inimical 10 the interests of the order at large have been railroaded into what is called "law." Fifteenth-War has been waged by the administration ring against the trades unions and trades dis. tIicts. The motto of the ring has been: "DOwn with the trades dis. tricts, exterminate the trades unions." This in spite of our ob' Iligation ''tO extend helping , hand to all branches of honorable toil."
 Sixteenth-Nearly every impOr' tant strike or lockout in which the general officers interfered was lost.
 Seventeenth-Asa a result of this blundering, wishy- washy, incom' petent and stupid arbitrary policy, the membership of the order has decreased 217,924 members in one year.
 r Eighteenth-In spite of the de. crease of membership they have , increased the annual expenditures of the general officers to s5oO, O,OO0.
 Nineteenth There was no item ized account of receipts and ex. penditures issued, either quarter ly, as had formerly been the GUS. tom, or to the general assembly. Twentieth In the general as- |, sembly arguments were met by buncombie, gag-law was reduced to system by the use of the pre-. vious question, outrageous decis- ions rendered, appeals and pro tests ignored, all for the purpose r of covering up the rascality of those in power.
 All local and district assem- plies in accord with the above dec laration, or desiring information, will please address Charles F. Seib, secretary of the provisional committee. Gazette, Oct. 24th.
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